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Make Sure You Download the Latest Ministry of Propaganda Updates
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds It’s time once again to check for Ministry of Propaganda updates, which like Windows and iOS is constantly being updated to counter new threats and enhance the user experience (heh). Much like the other … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Big Tech, Consumerism, Dystopia, Economics, environment, Neofeudalism, Neuromarketing, Philip K. Dick, PKD, propaganda, Psyops, Technocracy, unsustainability
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Calm Before the Tempest?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Let’s start by stipulating the obvious: no one knows the future, and most of the guesses–oops, I mean forecasts–will be wrong. Arguing about the forecasts now won’t make any difference as to which ones … Continue reading
Wokeness is a Product of Neoliberalism
Why don’t more people make this connection? By Chad C. Mulligan Source: The Hipcrime Vocab Substack One thing I haven’t seen people point out anywhere else is how much the current atmosphere of “wokeness” is an outcome of neoliberalism. Let … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Economics, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged capitalism, Competition, Consumerism, Corporate Globalization, culture, culture war, Economics, Free Market, Karl Polanyi, Naomi Klein, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Peter Kropotkin, Plutocracy, socially conscious, society, The Baffler, Thomas Frank, woke capitalism, wokeness
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Can a Nation Prosper as its Institutions Fail?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Economists focus on what can be easily measured: sales, profits, prices, tax revenues, etc. Since the decay and failure of institutions isn’t easily quantified, this decay doesn’t register in the realm of economics. Since it … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged central banks, Consumerism, economic bubbles, Economic Collapse, Economics, Education, financial crisis, Financialization, Health Care, Oligarchy, Samo Burja, society, Why Civilizations Collapse
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The Accelerating Destruction Of Earth’s Biodiversity: When Will We Act?
By Robert J. Burrowes As those individuals aware of it will have observed, presumably with deep regret, the latest ‘International Day for Biological Diversity’passed on 22 May with the bulk of the human population continuing to act in ways that destroy … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged 5G, Biodiversity, Biosphere, Climate Change, Consumerism, Deforestation, electrosmog, environment, Extinction, Fracking, poaching, pollution, Resource depletion, Technocracy, trophy hunting
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Where’s Dirk Gently When You Need Him?
By Erik Assadourian Source: Resilience Did you hear? A supersized cargo ship got wedged in the Suez Canal on March 23rd? If you didn’t, you must do pretty well at avoiding the news, social media, and late night TV. But … Continue reading
Desperate Americans Who Can’t Afford Housing Are Becoming “Modern-Day Nomads” …But Not By Choice
By Robert Wheeler Source: The Organic Prepper A recent story floating around mainstream media regarding “modern-day nomads” reads like a contemporary article on Henry David Thoreau. It shares stories of people looking to downsize their life and live simply and … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Consumerism, coronavirus, Covid-19, culture, Downsizing, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Housing Crisis, lockdown, minimalism, Nomads, Oligarchy, Poverty, society, The Great Reset, World Economic Forum
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